COVID-19 Pandemic and Pre-Participation Evaluations: Risks and Precautions
Burkay Utku1
, Erdem Kaşıkçıoğlu2
1Sports Medicine Section, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Hospital, Ankara City Hospitals, Turkey
2Cardiofit Health Service, Redbridge Trust, London, United Kingdom
Keywords: COVID-19, pre-participation examinations, myocarditis
Abstract
Many sports organizations are paused all over the world according to COVID-19 pandemia precautions. As COVID-19 pandemic is going on, it has become a necessity to review the health screening applied as routine while assessing the eligibility of the athletes participating in competetive sports. A detailed expert opinion is prepared for sports pre-participation examinations with consideration of the cardiac involvement observed in the course of COVID-19.
Cite this article as: Utku B, Kasikcioglu E. COVID-19 pandemic and pre-participation evaluations: Risks and precautions.Turk J Sports Med. 2020;55(3):251-55.
The authors declared no conflicts of interest with respect to the publication of this article. authorship and/or publication of this article.
The authors would like to thank Prof. Karl B. Fields and Prof. Bülent Ülkar for constructive criticism of the manuscript.
